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Mindsets

It’s All About You

April 19, 2012

Do you know it’s all about you? Yep. Sorry. But there is good news, too…

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The Importance of an Empty Future

April 12, 2012

What’s in your future? Hopefully, not much. When your future is empty—as in wide open, blue ocean, blank slate—you’re sitting pretty to put whatever you want there. Most of us do not have an empty future. Most of us have a jam-packed future. Do you know what it’s full of? The past. We drag all [...]

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Everything you ever Needed

January 12, 2012

One of my favorite topics is Need. I love it when people tell me they need something they don’t have. Or when they argue that their needs haven’t been met. How could either of those possibly be true? If you truly needed something that you weren’t getting–and you’re still alive–then you didn’t really need it. [...]

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It’s happening FOR you, not TO you

November 3, 2011

When something isn’t going the way I think it should, I try to remember it’s happening for me, not to me. What’s the lesson this thing is here to teach? How is this helping me grow? How is this situation perfect? It’s another way of asking all those questions, except its statement, not a question. [...]

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What was your most useful failure?

October 6, 2011

My friend posed this question on Facebook. I love it. What was your most useful failure? I’m sure I’ve had a lot of life-saving failures. But two come immediately to mind: 1) Abhorring my first career out of graduate school. I was a trial consultant helping corporate defense attorneys craft lies to win their cases [...]

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Mo’ money…

September 8, 2011

The purpose of money is to buy stuff.   It has no other purpose. I know, the “stuff” money buys sometimes sounds loftier and more meaningful than cars and electronics. Sometimes you buy experiences, which you interpret as “wisdom” or “adventure”. Or education, which you call “freedom” or “opportunity”.  It’s easy to spin the story so [...]

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Abundance breeds abundance

August 28, 2011

I ran across this short vlog on Huffington Post today. I love talking about the Cure for Envy.  She says it well.

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The whole picture? Or mentally myopic?

August 18, 2011

Things often seem really dire when you’re up close.  Like when you’re pregnant and sweaty and starving and you think your husband looked a little too long at a hot, un-pregnant woman on the street. When you accuse him of not loving you anymore, you’re looking at the situation a little too close up.  Just [...]

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Wouldn’t THIS be wild?

July 28, 2011

What if all humans were equal?  Not just created equal…what if we couldn’t help but remain equals our entire lives no matter what happened to us or what choices we made?   What if all the evidence we use to separate ourselves from others; all those facts and all that proof we use to decide that [...]

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Guilt is the love of staying stuck

July 15, 2011

Guilt is an interesting emotion, isn’t it? It’s the same as regret, basically, except guilt involves an extra dose of “I suck” that plain old regret doesn’t always have.  Guilt is choosing to feel badly about something that’s done and over. Arguing with reality because you chose to believe it should have of went down [...]

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